Study Examines How Over-40 Crowd
In New England Handles Health Care

By

Tamar Hausman Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated April 15, 1998 12:01 a.m. ET

If you're over 40, chances are you're "proactive" or "faithful" -- when it comes to health care, that is.

That's according to a new study by Carol Morgan and Doran Levy of Strategic Directions Group Inc., in St. Paul, Minn., a research firm that tracks trends in the older end of the population. To help pharmaceutical companies, HMOs and policy planners, among others, make sense of the diversity of attitudes and...